Redefining what it means to be “Australian”

The new intelligence sharing agreement between Japan and South Korea could create a new international scenario, where regional coalitions take the place of a US super-protector, Juan Lopez-Aranguren writes.

Taiwan has long been a thorny issue in Sino-Singaporean relations, but is it behind China’s seizure of nine Singaporean tanks or is the incident more closely linked to the South China Sea dispute? Stephan Ortmann sheds light on the situation.

A leaked report earlier this year shed light on where the Australian Government’s migration policy is headed and despite being dismissed at the time, subsequent actions should be sounding the alarm, Marianne Dickie writes.

China will likely take its place at the top of the world economic tree during Trump’s presidency. How will the “outsider” in the White House cope with this unprecedented shift in global power? In the second of his series looking at the Trump effect in East Asia, Stephen Nagy reports from China on the bilateral and broader regional implications.